The third stanza.
Hoc opus nostrae salutis ordo depoposcerat,
multiformis perditoris arte ut artem falleret
et medelam ferret inde, hostis unde laeserat.
Dearmer:
Thus the scheme of our salvation
Was of old in order laid,
That the manifold deceiver's
Art by art might be outweighed,
And the lure the foe put forward
Into means of healing made.
More literally:
'Order had earnestly demanded this work of our salvation,
so that by art it might deceive the art of the many-formed destroyer,
and that it might bring a remedy thence, from where the enemy had done the
damage.'
We begin to see the grand strategy of which Southern speaks. The Devil's
trickery
will be out-tricked by God. As the damage had been done by a tree, so the
remedy would come through a tree.
More tomorrow.
Oriens.
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